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Jira 8 Essentials - Sixth Edition

By : Patrick Li
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Book Image

Jira 8 Essentials - Sixth Edition

5 (1)
By: Patrick Li

Overview of this book

This new and improved sixth edition comes with the latest Jira 8.21 Data Center offerings, with enhanced features such as clustering, advanced roadmaps, custom field optimization, and tools to track and manage tasks for your projects. This comprehensive guide to Jira 8.20.x LTS version provides updated content on project tracking, issue and field management, workflows, Jira Service Management, and security. The book begins by showing you how to plan and set up a new Jira instance from scratch before getting you acquainted with key features such as emails, workflows, and business processes. You’ll also get to grips with Jira’s data hierarchy and design and work with projects. Since Jira is used for issue management, this book will help you understand the different issues that can arise in your projects. As you advance, you’ll create new screens from scratch and customize them to suit your requirements. Workflows, business processes, and guides on setting up incoming and outgoing mail servers will be covered alongside Jira’s security model and Jira Service Management. Toward the end, you’ll learn how Jira capabilities are extended with third-party apps from Atlassian marketplace. By the end of this Jira book, you’ll have understood core components and functionalities of Jira and be able to implement them in business projects with ease.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction to Jira
4
Part 2: Jira in Action
9
Part 3: Advanced Jira

Using Jira for Agile Projects

In the previous chapter, we looked at the basics of the Jira project and used Jira for generic task management. In this chapter, we will focus on using Jira for agile software development projects with Scrum, Kanban, and Kanplan. We will provide a brief overview of each of the agile methodologies and look at how to use Jira for both.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Getting an overview of Scrum and Kanban
  • Running a project with Scrum in Jira
  • Running a project with Kanban in Jira
  • Configuring agile boards
  • Grooming your backlog
  • Creating a new agile board for your project
  • Including multiple projects on your board